Brock Beauchamp

The thing is that standing on the plate and HBP is legitimately a skill that can and is repeated. It's super weird to knowingly execute that skill and then complain when you're awarded a base for it. Unless you have so little self awareness that you don't realize you're executing that skill effectively... I guess that's legitimately a possibility but it seems really unlikely.

The thing is that standing on the plate and HBP is legitimately a skill that can and is repeated. It's super weird to knowingly execute that skill and then complain when you're awarded a base for it. Unless you have so little self awareness that you don't realize you're executing that skill effectively... I guess that's legitimately a possibility but it seems really unlikely.

The thing is that standing on the plate and HBP is legitimately a skill that can and is repeated. It's super weird to knowingly execute that skill and then complain when you're awarded a base for it. Unless you have so little self awareness that you don't realize you're executing that skill effectively... I guess that's legitimately a possibility but it seems really unlikely.

The thing is that standing on the plate and HBP is legitimately a skill that can and is repeated. It's super weird to knowingly execute that skill and then complain when you're awarded a base for it. Unless you have so little self awareness that you don't realize you're executing that skill effectively... I guess that's legitimately a possibility but it seems really unlikely.

The Brewers went 15-4 against the Cubs last year. I think we're all okay with the idea of them doing that again.

The Brewers went 15-4 against the Cubs last year. I think we're all okay with the idea of them doing that again.

I put down Hyperion because I found it really slow and not engaging. Does it improve later? I think I only read about 50 pages, maybe.

I just don’t get Yelich. I mean, I get the technicalities of why he’s not hitting for power - he’s not elevating the ball - but I don’t get why that problem has persisted for this long.

I just don’t get Yelich. I mean, I get the technicalities of why he’s not hitting for power - he’s not elevating the ball - but I don’t get why that problem has persisted for this long.

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Brewer Fanatic’s Forum Friday! Every week, we’ll take a look at some of the popular topics generated by our community and give a quick rundown of the week’s action. While a lot has changed about Brewer Fanatic in the past few weeks, we want to stress that what makes this site tick is its user-generated content, which we want to promote to those of you who may be new to the site or visit us through the front page news section. With that said, let’s dive into the topics and what we’re talking about in the lead-up to Opening Day… What to do with Keston Hiura? The Brewers could certainly use a return to 2019 for Hiura… or maybe just better than 2021 would suffice. We don’t need perfection, only increased performance. After the ups and downs, how much of a chance should Hiura get in the 2022 lineup? We’re approaching Opening Day and Bally Sports still doesn’t have their standalone app ready for prime time, as it was recently delayed to the nebulous date of “summer”. So where can you watch the Brewers and what do these recent exclusivity deals mean for watching the Crew in 2022? User @KeithStone53151, like most of us, is frustrated by MLB continuing down the path of fragmentation and blackouts. Brewer Fanatic contributor @Tim Muma dreams over a trade for Bryan Reynolds, which could have propelled the Crew to elite status in the eyes of analysts and projection systems. Was this a reasonable goal? What would the Pirates want in return? We all know Bob Nutting loves to save a dollar whenever possible so maybe this scenario isn’t entirely out of the realm of possibility… On the flip side of that coin, user @turborickey laments the fact that Milwaukee is rarely in play for elite free agents. It’s a common refrain from fans of small- and mid-market teams and always a looming issue over baseball itself, as the playing field between teams is wildly disparate. Will baseball owners ever take action to move toward financial parity in the sport? That’s all for today, thanks for reading and if you have something to say about the Brewers or baseball in general, pop on over to our forums and start a conversation today! View full article

I’ve read the first… three? Dune books. The first is stellar, for sure. Shepard’s world building in Spiral Wars is Sanderson-esque in its depth and volume. Huge recommend to the series for those who like pretty hard sci-fi.

We’ll be posting at least one a week for the foreseeable future!

We’ll be posting at least one a week for the foreseeable future!

Other than BF, that is. If any of you are into sci-fi, I highly recommend Joel Shepard’s Spiral Wars series. The eighth book, Ceephay Queen, just released yesterday and I’m starting it as soon as I put the kids to bed. What are the rest of you reading?

@young guns @Samurai Bucky Turns out the editor already had spoilers, I just hadn't enabled them. I only had space to do it on the desktop editor, though. The eyeball icon is spoilers.

Added to the task list!

Fixed, thank you for the heads-up!

One of the key aspects of this new site is that it extends the concept of community beyond posts, threads, and forums. We have status updates, we have reactions, we have follower lists, we have much more of a social media model (without the trolling and general awfulness) but at the very core of our concept of community is our user blogs. Every user, once they register and post two pieces of content (comments, status updates, or threads) “graduate” to the Verified Member group, which opens up the ability to create your own blog. It only takes a few minutes to set up your blog space and from there, entering a blog is little different than writing a complex forum topic. You can easily drag-and-drop images, embed YouTube videos and tweets, paste tables into the content to support your point… in short, if you want to try your hand at writing long form, you can have a professional-looking blog entry in just a few minutes that will be read by hundreds of Brewers fans around the world. To encourage users to do this, we’re giving away FREE STUFF. Over the next few weeks, we’ll select some of the best-written and popular blog entries and give away prizes to those who wrote them. Here are examples of two of the prizes: An autographed Paul Molitor 1979 Topps card A vintage 1982 “World Champions” Brewers banner, somebody jumped the gun on printing these back in the day Are you interested in blogging? Log into Brewer Fanatic, click this link for instructions (you must be logged in to see that page) how to create a blog, and start writing today!

Dear BrewerFan.net users, welcome to the new Brewer Fanatic! First, your accounts from BrewerFan.net work here, though I’m sure some of you have lost access to your linked email account, which may prevent you from logging in. If you have any issues logging in, just shoot me an email at admin@brewerfanatic.com and I’ll get you sorted immediately. Things might seem a little overwhelming but I promise this site is very easy to use and within days, you’ll wonder how you lived without tables, reactions, drag-and-drop image insertion, and the host of other features offered by this software package. This software package is pretty awesome and its feature set is robust. And this is just the beginning… Right now, all users have access to the forums and anyone with an account can also create their own blog right here on the site! In a few weeks, we’ll be rolling out a news section and over the course of the season, new features will release with regularity. And if you have ideas for a feature you’d like to see, you know where to reach me. We’re a community-focused organization and you, the community, know what you want and like. So if you have suggestions, please contact me and we’ll talk about it. We’ll be making more announcements over the coming days but I just wanted to thank everyone for making this transition so easy; you’ve all been very kind and generous with your time as I fumbled around trying to figure out which direction is up. And a special, giant thanks to the founder and steward of this community for so many years, Brian Kapellusch. Without him keeping the lights on for over two decades, we wouldn’t be able to be a part of this community and watch it grow. We only hope we can do him proud. Before you jump into the site, I’m going to share some tutorials with you to start you off on the right foot. Just pop on over to our Help & Tutorials page, which will show you different content depending on if you’re logged in, a moderator, a blogging-enabled account, etc. Check it out, just cut me a little slack if it says “Twins Daily” everywhere… I’ll work on the rebranding tomorrow. Once again, thanks for everything and we’re insanely excited to work with you all going forward!

Welcome to the latest entry into my Tips & Tricks series! In this brief post, I’ll quickly run through another new-to-us feature, “Following”. This will allow you to track and follow the content of people and content you like throughout the website. Essentially, there are three aspects to following what you enjoy on the site: following categories, following content, and following individuals. I’ll run through each aspect and how each can be useful to you and improve how you find your favorite content. Following Individuals There are probably some contributors and forum users you like better than the rest, individuals whose content you know is going to be quality so you don’t want to miss it. Following a person is easy, just click on their username or avatar and visit their profile page. Near the top of the page, you will see a “Follow Member” button. Click that, specify the parameters of your follow and whether you’d like to follow anonymously, and that’s it! You will now be notified whenever this user creates new content anywhere on the site! NOTE: You should set your notification settings to specify how you’d like to receive information about new and updated content. You can change your notification settings from your user options screen or by clicking the link earlier in this paragraph. Scroll down to the “Followed Content” option and selecting your settings. Following Categories You can follow groups of content, as well. Are you a LINK LINK minor league specialist? Then consider following the minor league news category. Maybe you want to catch all LINK LINK Major League news content, you can do the same. Just visit the category or forum page and somewhere near the top of the page, you will see a “Follow” button. Click that, specify your preferred options, and you will be notified of all content that is added to that category or forum. This also works for blogs if you want to follow the blog entries of your favorite writers, just pop over to their main blog page and search for the “Follow” button. Following Content This is the most granular of the following options. You can follow specific content you see on the site. If you like an article and its resulting comments, follow that article and you will be updated as new comments are added. The same applies to forum threads or individual blog entries, just look for the “Follow” button near the top of the page. In the settings link I provided above, you can set to automatically follow content you create and content you participate in. If you’re a regular forum user or news story commenter, these are really useful functions to stay abreast of an interesting conversation and any replies you received to your own content. That’s about it! I highly recommend everyone consider using the follow function, as it’s just one more tool at your disposal to curate the site to fit your personal preferences.

Welcome to the brief rundown of our newest feature, achievements! I have spent a rather unhealthy amount of time developing it for the site. I hope you enjoy experiencing it as much as I enjoyed building it. Achievements, or awards, or gamification… you’ve probably run into it before in other avenues of your digital life. Achievements are most common (and were largely born out of) the console video game world, beginning on the Xbox platform in the mid-2000s. Basically, it boils down to this: do stuff, get (sometimes silly) awards and badges for doing it. Over the past month, I’ve designed over 60 custom badges that you can be awarded for performing sometimes mundane, other times complex, tasks across the Brewer Fanatic platform. Comment on a post, get a badge. Write a blog post, get a badge. Vote on a poll, get a badge… you get the point. Do some of these tasks multiple times and sometimes (many times) you’ll get additional badges. If you visit your user profile page, you’ll see it now looks different, with achievements being prominently displayed near the top. With over 60 badges available right now, some of you older, veteran Brewer Fan users will start accumulating achievements the moment you begin participating in various aspects of the site, as many (as many as possible, but not all) of the achievements are back-dated to the time you began using the site. So explore the site, try completing some random tasks like post a status update, and see if you get a badge for doing it! As you "achieve" new things, on top of badges, you will also be awarded points. Once you hit certain milestones in points, you raise in rank (out of 14 ranks in total). In the image above, my rank is "draft eligible", the third rank you will achieve. Here is a sampling of a few of the badges you can be awarded right now: Some achievements will be won seemingly at random but I assure you, there is a specific set of items that awarded you the badge (and sometimes, those items need to be completed in a specific order). And some badges will be awarded manually for “exceptional” things done on the site. Those will be the hardest to collect and the rarest achievements available on Brewer Fanatic. And if anyone manages to get them all or one of the *really* difficult-to-uncover achievements, we may have some special prizes available to users who can accomplish those rarest of feats on the site…